Well it’s been almost a week since my surgery. It went really really well. I got to the hospital at 5AM ,holy crap!, seriously what is up with that? I got really anxious about 6am, started freaking out a bit. Thank the Goddess for Elizabeth. She got me all calmed down and out of my horribly heading funk. I think it was based on my two previous Hospital visits. My kidney stone of 2000 and my gall bladder like attack last year. Both times weren’t pleasant. So I started to think this was going to be the same as before. I was freaking out big time. So after getting calmed down, thanks to Liz, things went pretty good from there. I got some cool stuff when I was there. I got these little cool brown socks with rubber grippy bottoms. I told the first nurse that I really liked them and she sneaked me a couple of extra pairs. Sweet!!!. So now I’ve got 3 pairs. I don’t know how long they will last they seem partially temporary, but for as long as I have them they will be worn with full comfort!!! So I got moved over to the holding area. There I met some really great nurses and people. I met my anesthesiologist (wow, i spelled that correctly on the first try), but he got pulled away for a trauma issue. So I waited with 4 magazines all of the good housekeeping type. All was good, got some good reading in. the unfortunate issue with the magazines was that there are a lot of food ads and recipes. I was fasting for over 12 hours at that point. It really sucked. Beyond that, my day went really well. I re-met the Dr.’s and got moved to the operating room. There I got hopped onto the table. Man was is comfortable. They had it all laid out for me to lay face down with my face is this contoured foam pillow. I’m telling you the truth, I could have fallen asleep. It was like a massage table. So the surgery went really well. A fair amount of pain actually. I was under the medications and all but there was still a lot of pain involved. the cyst went a different direction than I think Dr. Yarbrough thought. it went deep instead of wide. All in all it went Ok. Some strange sensations in the head though. So I got moved back to ‘holding’ where I got apple juice and graham crackers. I told the nurse that I felt like I was in kindergarten again. All I needed was a nap pad and my binki. (that’s right I said binki.)
So I got all hopped up on vicodin, and some advil derivative, and went to Snack Shack. Had a delicious Garden burger and back home to sleep for a few hours. Got to hang out in the comfy chair (those who have sat in it, you know what I’m talking about) watch some F1, Play some PlayStation, watch a few movies. take more vicodin. So all in all it went OK. I’ve got some numbness above the incision, but it’s going really well. Still some puffiness, some bruising, soreness, but all in all it’s going really well.
So that’s the report. I put this in both the life stuff and The Thinner Man (technically I’m about 2 oz lighter with the removal so it counts)
